REG ENT SCHOOL LEGISLAT ION 



STATE OF IOWA 

Department of Public Instruction 

DES MOINES 



Extracts from the School Laws as Amended by the Thirty-seventh General 

Assembly. 



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SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE SCHOOL LAWS OF 1915. 

(Dampen the edge with mucilage and insert following the title page of your 

law book. ) 



PFBLISHED BY THE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION 

UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE DOCUMENT EDITOR. FOR USE 

OF SCHOOL BOARDS AND SCHOOL OFFICERS 



DISTRIBUTION OF LAWS. 

Volumes bound in paper covers shall be furnished to each school 
director to be turned over by the director to his successor in office. 
See section 2624. 

Each school officer, upon the termination of his term of office shall 
immediately surrender to his successor all books, papers and moneys 
pertaining or belonging to the office, taking a receipt therefor. See 
section 2770. 

To aid in the proper administration of the law concerning public 
schools, we publish herein the new laws and amendments of the Thir- 
ty-seventh General Assembly. 

A. M. DEYOE, 
May 28, 1917. Superintendent of Public Instruction. 



SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION— ELECTIVE. 

CH. 318—37 G. A. 
Senate File 494. 

Section 1. That the office of Superintendent of Public Instruction 
is hereby made elective, and the election of said officer shall be sub- 
mitted to the qualified voters of Iowa at the general election of 1918 
and every four years thereafter. The term of such officer so elected 
shall commence at the expiration of the Superintendent of Public In- 
struction now in office, and continue until his successor is elected and 
qualified. 

Sec. 2. Section twenty-six hundred twenty-seven-a (2627-a) supple- 
ment to the code, 1913, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent here- 
with are hereby repealed. 

COMBINATION OF SCHOOL FUNDS. 
CH. 386—37 G. A. 
House File No. 565. 

Section 1. That the law as it appears in section twenty-seven hun- 
dred thirty-three la (2733-la), supplemental supplement to the code, 
1915, be and the same is hereby amended by striking from line nine- 
teen (19) thereof the words- "and the average proportion of contingent 
expenses" and by striking from line twenty-two (22) thereof the words 
"out of the teachers' fund and the contingent fund or". 

Sec. 2. That the law as it appears in section twenty-seven hundred 
forty-nine (2749) of the code be and the same is hereby amended by 
striking out the words "teachers' or contingent" in line twelve (12) 
and substituting in lieu thereof the word "general". 

Sec. 3. That the law as it appears in section twenty-seven hundred 
sixty-seven (2767) of the code be and the same is hereby amended by 
striking out the words "contingent and teachers" in line two (2) and 
substituting in lieu thereof the word "general". 

Sec. 4. That the law as it appears in section twenty-seven hundred 
sixty-eight (2768), supplement to the code, 1913, be and the same is 
hereby amended by striking therefrom lines seven (7), eight (8), nine 
(9), ten (10) and eleven (11) and inserting in lieu thereof the follow- 
ing: "The money collected by tax voted or the proceeds of the sale of 
bonds valid for the purpose of building schoolhouses shall be called 
the schoolhouse fund, and all other moneys received for any other 
purpose shall be called the general fund," also by striking out the 
word "contingent" in line twenty-three (23) and substituting in lieu 
thereof the word "general". 

Sec. 5. That the law as it appears in section twenty-seven hundred 
sixty-nine (2769), supplement to the code, 1913, be and the same is 
hereby amended by striking from line five (5) the words "teachers' 
fund, the contingent" and substituting in lieu thereof the word "gen- 
eral". 

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See. 6. That the law as it appears in section twenty-seven hundred 
' seventy-four (2774) of the code be and the same is hereby amended by 
«[ striking from line twelve (12) the word "contingent" and substituting 
in lieu thereof the word "general", by striking from line eight (8) 
the word "teachers" and substituting in lieu thereof the word "gen- 
eral". 

Sec. 7. , That the law as it appears in section twenty-seven hundred 
eighty-three (27S3), supplement to the code, 1913, be and the same is 
hereby amended by striking from line two (2) the word "contingent" 
and substituting in lieu thereof the word "general", also by striking 
from line ten (10) the word "contingent" and substituting in lieu 
thereof the word "general". 

Sec. 8. That the law as it appears in section twenty-eight hundred 
three (2803) of the code be and the same is hereby amended by 
striking from lines twelve (12) and thirteen (13) the words "and an 
average proportion of contingent expenses". 

Sec. 9. That the law as it appears in section twenty-eight hundred 
six (2806), supplement to the code, 1913, be and the same is hereby 
amended by striking out the following as it appears in lines four (4), 
five (5), six (6), seven (7), eight (S), nine (9), ten (10), eleven (11), 
twelve (12) and thirteen (13): "estimate the amount required for the 
contingent fund, not exceeding ten dollars for each person of school 
age, but each school corporation may estimate not exceeding seventy- 
five dollars for each school thereof, and such additional sum as may be 
necessary not exceeding five dollars for each person of school age for 
transporting children to and from school; and also such additional 
sum as may be authorized in the chapter on uniformity of text-books; 
also such sum as may be required for the teachers' fund, which shall 
not exceed thirty dollars for each person of school age therein, but 
each corporation may estimate not exceeding two hundred seventy 
dollars, for each regular school therein", and inserting in lieu thereof 
the following: "estimate the amount required for the general fund, 
not exceeding forty dollars for each pupil of school age, but each 
school corporation may estimate not to exceed five hundred twenty- 
five dollars for each schooj. thereof, and such additional sumi as may 
be necessary not exceeding five dollars for each person of school age 
for transporting children to and from schools; also such additional 
sum as may be authorized in section twenty-eight hundred twenty-five 
of the code." 

Sec. 10. That the law as it appears in section twenty : eight hundred 
twenty-five of the code be and the same is hereby amended by striking 
out the word "contingent" in line three (3) thereof and substituting 
the word "general", also by striking out the w T ord "contingent" in line 
five (5) thereof and substituting the word "general". 

Sec. 11. All funds on hand in the schoolhouse bond fund at the time 
of the taking effect of this act shall be transferred to the schoolhouse 
fund and all funds on hand in the teachers' fund and contingent fund 
on said date shall be transferred to the general fund of such corpora- 
tion. ' 



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FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 

CH. -223—37 G. A. 

House File No. 412. 

That section two thousand seven hundred eighty-one (2781) of the 
code, he and the same is hereby amended by inserting after the word 
"district" in line two, the words, "independent school district or school 
township." 

LAW FOR THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION IN AGRICULTURE, 
TRADES AND INDUSTRIES. 

CH. 300—37 G. A. 

House File No. 446. 

Section 1. That the provisions of the Act of Congress, enacted by 
the sixty-fifth congress at the second session thereof, entitled an "act 
to provide for the pi'omotion of vocational education; to provide for 
co-operation with the states in the promotion of such education in agri- 
culture and the trades and industries; to provide for co-operation with 
the states in the preparation of teachers of vocational subjects; and 
to appropriate money and regulate its expenditure", and approved Feb- 
ruary 23, 1917, be and the same is hereby accepted. 

Sec. 2 That the benefits of all funds appropriated under the provi- 
sions of such act are hereby accepted as provided in such act. 

Sec. 3. That the state board for vocational education is hereby 
designated as the state board as provided in such act, is charged with 
the duty and responsibility of co-operating with the Federal Board 
for Vocational Education in the administration of such act; and is 
given all power necessary to such co-operation. 

Sec. 4. That such state board is hereby authorized to make such 
expenditures for the salaries of assistants and for such office and 
other expenses as such state board may deem necessary to the proper 
administration of the funds allotted to the state of Iowa under the 
ministration of the funds allotted to the state of Iowa under the 
provisions of such act. 

Sec. 5. That the state treasurer is appointed as custodian of funds 
for vocational education, as provided in such act; and is charged with 
the duty and responsibility of receiving and providing for the proper 
custody and for the proper disbursements on vouchers drawn by such 
state board, of moneys paid to the state from the appropriations made 
under the provisions of such act. 

Sec. 6. That the state treasurer as custodian of funds for vocational 
education shall make to the general assembly, at each biennial session 
thereof, a report of the receipts and disbursements of moneys received 
by him under the provisions of such act and such state board shall 
make to the general assembly at each biennial session thereof a report 
of its administration of such act, and the expenditures of money 
allotted to the state under the provisions of such act. 



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Sec. 7. This act being deemed of immediate importance shall be in 
effect on and after its publication in the Des Moines Register, and the 
Des Moines Capital, newspapers published in Des Moines, Iowa. 

STATE BOARD OP VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. 

CH. 290—37 G. A. 

House File No. 445. 

Section 1. That the following words and phrases as used in this act 
shall have the following meanings: 

1. 'Approved school, department or class" shall mean a school, de- 
partment or class approved by the state board for vocational education 
as entitled under the provisions of this act to federal moneys for the 
salaries of teachers of vocational subjects. 

2. "Approved 'eachers' training school, department or class" shall 
mean a school, department or class approved by the state board for 
vocational education as entitled under the provisions of this act to 
federal moneys for the training of teachers of vocational subjects. 
Sec. 2. That a state board to be known as the state board for voca- 
tional education is hereby created. Such state board for vocational 
education shall consist of three members as follows: The state super- 
intendent of public instruction, who shall be chairman, the President of 
the State Board of Education, and the Commissioner of the bureau of 
labor statistics. 

Sec. 3. That such state board shall have the duty and be given all 
necessary power to provide for making studies and investigations re- 
lating to prevocational and vocational training in agricultural, indus- 
trial, home economics and commercial subjects; to promote and aid in 
the establishment of local communities of public schools, departments 
and classes giving instruction in such subjects; to co-operate with local 
communities in the maintenance of such schools, departments and 
classes; to establish standards for, test the qualifications of, and to 
certificate teachers of such subjects in such approved schools, depart- 
ments and classes; and to co-operate in the maintenance of teachers' 
training schools, departments and classes supported and controlled by 
the public for the training of teachers and supervisors of such subjects. 

Sec. 4. That such state board shall appoint a committee to be known 
as the state advisory committee for vocational education, consisting of 
nine members; three of these members to serve for one year, three for 
two years, and three for three years, and all members thereafter for 
three years each, The membership of such state advisory committee 
shall consist of one member experienced in agriculture, one employer, 
one representative of labor, one woman experienced in woman's work, 
one person experienced in business and commerce, one person of ex- 
perience in social work, and three educators. Such state advisory com- 
mittee shall meet in conference with such state board at least two times 
a year and at such other times as such state board shall deem advisable 
and shall have the duty and responsibility of giving advice and sug- 



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gestions to such state board concerning prevocational and vocational 
education, the training of teachers of agriculture, industrial, household 
arts and commercial subjects, and the administration of this act. The 
members of such state advisory committee shall be reimbursed for their 
actual expenses incurred in attending such conference. 

Sec. 5. That in order to meet the requirements that for each dollar 
of Federal money expended for the salaries of teachers in approved 
schools, departments and classes, the local community must expend an 
amount equal to the amount of Federal money which it receives for 
the same purpose for the same year. 

Sec. 6. That such board shall establish standards and annually in- 
spect, as a basis of approval, all schools, departments and classes ap- 
plying for Federal moneys for instruction in agriculture, industrial, 
home economics and commercial subjects under the provisions of this 
act; and all teachers' training schools, departments and classes apply- 
ing for Federal moneys for the training of teachers and supervisors of 
said subjects. Approved schools, departments and classes shall be entitled 
under the provisions of this act, to Federal moneys, and approved 
teachers' training schools, departments and classes shall be entitled to 
such Federal moneys, so long as they are approved by such board as to 
site, plant, equipment, number and qualification of teachers, employ- 
ment of teachers, admission and number of pupils, courses of study, 
methods of instruction and expenditure of money. All disbursements of 
Federal moneys to such approved schools, departments, and classes and 
to such approved teachers' training schools, departments and classes 
shall be made by the state treasurer on the requisition of such state 
board. 

Sec. 7. That the state superintendent of public instruction shall be 
the executive officer of such state board for the administration of this 
act. He shall, with the approval of such board, appoint such assistants 
as may be necessary to properly carry out the provisions of this act. 

Sec. 8. That the board of directors of any school district is hereby 
authorized to carry on prevocational and vocational instruction in 
agricultural, industrial, home economics, and commercial subjects and 
to pay the expense of such instruction in the same way as the expenses 
for other subjects in the public schools are now paid. 

Sec. 9. That the board of directors of any school district (having a 
population of more than 5,000 persons) maintaining a school, depart- 
ment or class receiving the benefit of Federal moneys under the provi- 
sions of this act shall, as a condition of approval by such state board 
as herein provided; appoint a local advisory committee for vocational 
education consisting of persons of experience in agriculture, industry, 
home economics or business to give advice and assistance to such board 
of directors in the establishment and maintenance of such schools, de- 
partments and classes. Such state board may require the board of 
directors of any school district that maintains such an approved school, 
department or class to appoint such an advisory committee. Such per- 
sons of experience shall serve on such advisory committee without com- 
pensation. 



Sec. 10. That such board is hereby authorized to make such expendi- 
ture for the actual expenses of the board and of such state advisory 
committee for vocational education incurred in the discharge of their 
duties as herein provided, for the salaries of assistants, and for such 
office and other expenses as in the judgment of such board are neces- 
sary to the proper administration of this act, and there is hereby ap- 
propriated out of any funds in the state treasury not otherwise appro- 
priated, the sum of $2,500 per annum for the actual expenses of said 
board of vocational education mentioned in this section. 

Sec. 11. That such board shall make to the general assembly at each 
biennial session thereof, a report on the administration of this act and 
on the expenditures of money under the provisions of this act. 

Sec. 12. That all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are 
hereby repealed. 

FREE TUITION IN HIGH SCHOOL. 

CH. 156—37 G. A. 

(Effective by publication April 16 ,1917.) 

House File No. 70. 

Section 1. That the law as it appears in section 2733-la Supple- 
mental Supplement to the Code, 1915, be and the same is hereby re- 
pealed and the following is enacted in lieu thereof: Any person of 
school age who is a resident of a school corporation which does not 
offer a four-year high school course and who has completed the course 
as approved by the department of public instruction for such corpora- 
tion shall be permitted to attend any public high school or county high 
school in the state approved in like manner that will receive him. Any 
person applying for admiission to any high school under the provisions 
of this act shall present the officials of said high school the affidavit of 
his or her father, mother, guardian, or if he have neither, his next 
friend that such applicant is of school age and a resident of a school 
district of this state, specifying the district. He shall also present a 
certificate signed by the county superintendent showing proficiency in 
the common school branches, reading, orthography, arithmetic, phy- 
siology, grammar, civics of Iowa, geography, United States history, pen- 
manship and music. The school corporation in which such student re- 
sides shall pay to the secretary of the corporation in which such student 
shall be permitted to enter a tuition fee of five dollars ($5.00) per month, 
but in districts in which there is a city of the first class a tuition fee of 
seven dollars ($7.00) per month may be charged, in the high school de- 
partment in the latter corporation during the time he so attends, not 
exceeding, however, a total period of four school years; provided that 
such tuition shall in no case exceed the average cost of said tuition in 
such high school; such payment to be made out of the teachers' fund 
and the contingent fund or out of the general fund of the debtor cor- 
poration and such tuition fee as collected by the secretary shall be 
turned over by him with an itemized statement, to the treasurer of the 



school funds on or before February fifteenth and June fifteenth of each 
year. If payment is refused or neglected the board of the creditor cor- 
poration shall file with the auditor of the county of the pupil's residence 
a statement certified by its president specifying the amount due for 
tuition and for contingent expenses respectively, and the time for which 
the same is claimed; and the auditor shall transmit to the county treas- 
urer an order directing such treasurer to transfer the amount of such 
account from the debtor corporation to the creditor corporation, and the 
treasurer shall pay the same in accordance therewith. No school cor- 
poration situated in a county maintaining a county high school shall be 
required to pay the tuition of pupils at any high school other than 
such county high school, but this shall not apply to pupils who, while 
residing at hoimie, attend some high school other than that of the school 
corporation in which they reside; and the tuition to be paid by school 
corporations in such county shall be three and one-half dollars ($3.50) 
per pupil per month, provided that, in counties having a high school 
where a child resides at home and attends a high school outside the dis- 
trict of his residence other than the county high school, and the school 
corporation where the child resides pays the tuition for such child, 
and at the end of the school year it is found that less pupils have at- 
tended the county high school from the district where such child re- 
sides than was entitled to attend under the county high school appor- 
tionment, then and in that case the school corporation where such child 
resides shall be entitled to be reimbursed from the county high school 
funds for the tuition so paid, not exceeding in the aggregate an amount 
equal to the taxes contributed by such district to said county high 
school funds for the tax year preceding, fair and equitable credit being 
given to the county high school fund for pupils actually attending said 
county high school during said school year from the district where said 
child resides. The county superintendent shall, on being applied to for 
such purpose, determine in writing the amount due such corporation 
from the county high school fund, and furnish such corporation with a 
copy of such finding. Within twenty days thereafter such corpora- 
tion may appeal to the district court from such finding. by serving 
written notice on the county superintendent of the taking of such ap- 
peal. On the service of said notice the county superintendent shall file 
a copy of his finding in the office of the clerk of the district court and the 
clerk shall docket the cause without fee. The matter shall be tried on 
appeal as in equity and without formal pleading. The decision of the 
district court shall be final. The treasurer shall, upon the filing with 
him of any final decision, immediately transfer from the county high 
school fund's to the credit of the corporation entitled to the same the 
amount directed to be transferred. 

Sec. 2. This act, being deemed of immediate importance, shall take 
effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Des Moines 
Register, a newspaper published in Des Moines, Iowa, and the Council 
Bluffs Nonpareil, a newspaper published in Council Bluffs, Iowa. 



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FREE TEXT BOOKS— QUESTION SUBMITTED. 

CH. 56—37 G. A. 

House File No. 49. 

Section 1. That section twenty-eight hundred and thirty-six (2836) 
of the code be amended by striking out in the second line thereof fol- 
lowing the word "by" the words "one-third or more of the legal" and in- 
serting in lieu thereof the words "ten per cent of the qualified." 

PUBLIC EVENING SCHOOLS. 
CH. 97—37 G. A. 
Senate File No. 368. 

Section 1. The school board of any organized school district within 
the state is hereby authorized and empowered under the control and 
supervision of the city or county superintendent to establish and main- 
tain public evening schools as a branch of the public schools when said 
school board shall deem advisable for the public convenience and wel- 
fare, and said evening schools shall be available to all persons over six- 
teen (16) years of age, who from any cause are unable to attend the 
public day schools of such district. 

Sec. 2. "Whenever in any organized school district within the state 
there shall be residing ten or more persons over sixteen (16) years of 
age who desire instruction at an evening school in the common 
branches, it shall be the duty of the school board of such organized 
school district to establish and maintain an evening school for such 
instruction throughout a period of not less than three months of every 
school year and for not less than two hours at least two times each 
week during the term of such evening school, which school shall be 
under the control and supervision of the city or county superintendent. 

- CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS— PETITION. 
CH. 432—37 G. A. 
Senate File No. 579. 
Be it Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 

Section 1. That section twenty-seven hundred ninety-four-a (2794-a) 
of the supplemental supplement to the code, 1915, be and the same is 
hereby amended by striking therefrom subdivision "A" thereof and in- 
serting the following in lieu thereof: "When a petition describing the 
boundaries of contiguous territory, containing not less than sixteen 
sections within one or more counties is signed by one-third of the elec- 
tors residing in such territory, and filed with the county superintendent, 
or if the proposed consolidated district is made up of a part of two or 
more counties, then with the county superintendent of the county in 
which the greatest number of freeholders in the proposed district reside. 

The county superintendent with whom such petition is filed, shall fix 



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a time not less than five nor more than fifteen days thereafter at which 
time written objections to the proposed boundaries of the proposed 
consolidated district may be filed with such county superintendent by 
any person residing or owning land within such proposed boundaries 
or any person living in any sub-district, a part of which is included in 
such proposed consolidated district. Notice of. the time and place shall 
be given in a newspaper published in such proposed consolidated dis- 
trict if there be such paper, and if there be none, then such notice shall 
be published in the official papers of the county in which the county 
superintendent giving such notice shall reside. 

At the time and place so fixed, all objections to said proposed bounda- 
ries then filed shall be heard by such county superintendent upon their 
merits, after which hearing, the said county superintendent shall fix 
and determine the boundaries of the proposed consolidated district. The 
ruling upon such objections and fixing of boundaries shall be made in 
writing within five days after the same have been finally submitted. 
Any person having filed such objections and being aggrieved by the 
ruling of the county superintendent may appeal therefrom to the county 
board of education within five days after the ruling is filed by the 
county superintendent and shall serve notice on said county superin- 
tendent. When the county superintendent is notified that an appeal has 
been taken from the ruling, such county superintendent shall within 
five days thereafter file with the county board of education all of the 
original papers together with the transcript of the proceedings before 
the county superintendent. When the time for taking such appeal has 
expired, the county board of education shall fix a time not later than ten 
days thereafter when all such appeals shall be heard; the persons taking 
such appeal shall serve notice thereof upon the persons or school cor- 
porations in interest by posting notices in five conspicuous places in 
said proposed district giving at least five days' notice of the time and 
place where such appeal will be heard. The county board of education 
shall determine such appeal within three days after the submission 
thereof, which decision shall be final as to said boundaries. 

If no objections be filed, or if, after final hearing, the objections are 
not sustained, and the said petition is approved, it shall be the duty of 
said board of directors within ten days, to call an election in the pro- 
posed consolidated district, notice of which shall be given by publica- 
tion in one issue of some paper published in the proposed consolidated 
district if one is so published. If there be no such paper, the notice 
shall be published in one issue of the official papers of the county or 
counties in which the proposed consolidated district is located, at which 
election all voters residing in the proposed consolidated district shall be 
entitled to vote by ballot for or against such separate organization. 

When it is proposed to include in such district a school corporation 
containing a city, town or village with a population of one hundred or 
more inhabitants, the voters residing upon the territory outside the 
limits of the said school corporation shall vote separately upon the 
proposition to create such new district. The judges of said election 
shall provide separate ballot boxes in which shall be deposited the votes 



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cast by the voters from their respective territory, and if a majority of 
the votes cast by the electors residing either within or without the 
limits of such city, town or village, is against the proposition to form 
a consolidated independent corporation, then the proposed corporation 
shall not be formed. If a majority of the votes so cast in each territory 
shall be in favor of such independent organization, the organization of 
the proposed consolidated independent school corporation shall be com- 
pleted by the election of a board of directors for said school corporation, 
as provided in section twenty-seven hundred ninety-five of the code, and 
when so organized shall not be reduced to less than sixteen sections un- 
less dissolved as provided by this act. 

No remaining portion of any school corporation from which territory 
is taken to form such a consolidated independent corporation shall, 
after the change, contain less than four government sections, which 
territory shall be contiguous and so situated as to form a suitable cor- 
poration. In the formation of such consolidated school corporation the 
boundary lines shall conform to those of corporations or district already 
established, so far as practicable, and in case the boundary of such dis- 
trict be a public highway, then the said consolidated district may 
include such tracts of 160 acres or less as are contiguous to the 
said highway and the county superintendent after a full and fair 
hearing gives his approval. And where after the formation of such 
consolidated school corporation, there is left in any school township one 
or more pieces of territory containing four or more government sections, 
each of such pieces of territory shall thereof become a rural independent 
school corporation, unless two or more sub-districts remain in a con- 
tiguous body, in which event such remaining portion of territory shall 
constitute a school township, and it shall be the duty of the officers of 
the former school township to call an election in each of such re- 
maining pieces of territory for the purpose of electing school officers in 
the manner provided by law for the election of officers in rural inde- 
pendent school and school township organizations. 

All costs incurred shall be paid by the school district in which such 
consolidation is proposed." 

By inserting after the comma in line six (6) of sub-division "e" 
thereof the following "or for the building of a superintendent's and 
teachers' house" and also by striking from line sixteen (16) of said sub- 
division "e" the word "incorporated" and also by inserting after the 
comma following the word "village" in said line sixteen (16) the fol- 
lowing "or upon lands contiguous to- such limits." 

Sec. 2. This act shall not affect, or be construed to affect action 
now pending in the formation of any consolidated school district. 

PUBLIC SCHOOL CORPORATIONS MAY MAINTAIN SCHOOLS FOR 
BLIND AND DEAF. 
CH. 308—37 G. A. 
Senate File No. 331. 

Section. 1. Any school corporation having residing therein five or 
more blind children of school age shall have authority to provide one 



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or more instructors to provide instruction for such blind pupils sub- 
stantially equivalent to the work required in the first eight grades of 
the graded schools. Such course of instruction and instructors to be 
approved by the superintendent of public instruction. 

Sec. 2. Any school corporation having residing therein five or more 
deaf children of school age shall have authority to provide one or more 
instructors to provide instructions for such deaf pupils substantially 
equivalent to the work required in the first eight grades of the graded 
schools. Such course of instruction and instructors to be approved by 
the superintendent of public instruction. 

Sec. 3. State aid, in the sum of one hundred dollars per year for each 
such blind or deaf pupil receiving instruction in any such school cor- 
poration, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury 
not otherwise appropriated, the same to be paid to the treasurer of the 
school corporation at the end of each school year; provided, however, 
that to be entitled to such state aid such instruction shall be given for a 
period of at least ten school months each year. 

Sec. 4. To be entitled to such state aid the courses and methods of 
instruction must comply with such requirements as may be outlined by 
the superintendent of public instruction and shall include every modern 
method of instruction known to the professions. 

SCHOOL FUNDING BONDS, 

CH. 262—37 G. A. 

(Effective by publication May 1, 1917) 
Senate File No. 325. 

Section 1. That the law appearing as section 2812-c of the supple- 
ment to the code, 1913, be and the same is hereby repealed and the fol- 
lowing enacted in lieu thereof: 

"For the purpose of providing for the payment of any indebtedness of 
any school corporation represented by judgments or bonds, the board of 
directors of such school corporation at any time or times may provide 
by resolution for the issuance of bonds of such school corporation to be 
known as funding or refunding bonds. The proceeds derived from the 
negotiation of such funding or refunding bonds shall be applied in pay- 
ment of such indebtedness; or said funding bonds or refunding bonds 
may be issued in exchange for the evidence of such indebtedness, par 
for par." 

Sec. 2. All bonds which have been heretofore issued under chapter 
one hundred fift3 r -two. (152) of the laws of the thirty-second (32d) gen- 
eral assembly of Iowa and which are subject to the objection that they 
were issued to refund bonds which has been issued subsequent to the 
adoption of said chapter one hundred fifty-two (152), are hereby legal- 
ized in respect to said objection, the same in effect as if the bonds re- 
funded had been issued prior to the adoption of said chapter one hun- 
dred fifty-two (152). 

Sec. 3. Nothing in this act shall affect any pending litigation. 

Sec. 4. This act, being deemed of immediate importance, shall take 
effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Des Moines 



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Register and in the Des Moines Capital, newspapers published at Des 
Moines, Iowa. 

RETIREMENT FUND. 
CH. 387—37 G. A. 
Senate File No. 298. 

Section 1. Any independent school district having a population of 
seventy-five thousand (75,000) or more >miay establish a pension and 
annuity retirement system for the public school teachers of such 
district. 

Sec. 2. The fund for such retirement system shall be created by an 
annual tax not exceeding two-tenths (2/10) of a mill on the dollar, by 
an assessment of the teachers not exceeding one per cent of their sal- 
aries in any one year, and by the interest on any permanent fund which 
may be created by gilt, bequest or otherwise. . 

Sec. 3. The board of directors of the independent school district 
shall constitute the board of trustees and shall formulate the plan of the 
retirement; and shall make necessary rules and regulations for the 
operation of said retirement system. 

TEACHING OF AGRICULTURE, MANUAL TRAINING AND DOMES- 
TIC SCIENCE IN RURAL SCHOOLS. 

CH. 319—37 G. A. 

Senate Fllf No. 238. 

Section 1. That the law as it appears in section twenty-seven hun- 
dred seventy-five-a (2775-a) of the supplemental supplement to the code, 
1915, be and the same is hereby amended by adding after the period at 
the end of said sections the following: 

Provided, however, that nothing in this section shall prevent the 
board of directors from dispensing with the teaching of said subjects in 
rural schools at its discretion. 

SCHOOL HOUSE SITES— ACQUISITION. 

CH. 26—37 G. A. 
(Effective by publication March 12, 1917.) 
Sexate File No. 63. 

Section 1. That section two thousand eight hundred and fourteen 
(2814) of the supplement to the code, 1913, be and the same is hereby 
repealed and the following enacted as a substitute therefor: 

Any school corporation may take and hold so much real estate as 
rniay be required for school house sites, for the location or construction 
thereon of school houses, and the convenient use thereof, but not to ex- 
ceed two acres exclusive of public highway, except in a city, town or 
village it may include two blocks exclusive of the street or highway as 
the case may be, for any one site, and may <tiso take and hold such 
additional real estate, not exceeding five acres as may be required for 
school playground or other purposes for each such site, or in districts 
consolidated under the provisions of section two thousand seven hun- 



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dred ninety-four-a (2794-a) of the supplemetnal supplement to the code, 
1915, may take and hold not to exceed ten acres, for any one site, such 
additional ground may he acquired by donation, which site must he 
upon some public road already established or procured by the board of 
directors and shall, except in cities, towns or villages, he at least thirty 
rods from the residence of any owner who objects to its being placed 
nearer, and not in any public park. 

Sec. 2. That section two thousand eight hundred fifteen (2815) of 
the code be and the same is hereby repealed and the following enacted 
as a substitute therefor : 

If the owner of any of the real estate desired for a school house site 
or sites, or a public road thereto, or for school play grounds or other 
purposes for which any school corporation is, or may be authrized to 
take and hold real estate, refuses or neglects to convey the same, or is 
deceased, or is unknown or cannot be found, or if in the judgment of 
the board of directors of said school corporation they cannot agree with 
such owner, the county superintendent of the county in which said 
school corporation is located shall, upon the application of either party 
in interest, appoint three freeholders of said county not interested in 
the same or a like question, as referees, who shall take and subscribe 
an oath to the effect that they will faithfully and impartially discharge 
the duties laid upon them. The county superintendent shall give notice 
of the time and place of making the assessments of damages to the 
owner of such real estate as shown by the transfer books in the office of 
the county auditor of such county, and the person in possession thereof, 
or, if such owner as so shown by such transfer book is deceased, then 
such notice shall be given to the person or persons in possession of such 
real estate and to the owners of the beneficial interest therein, such 
notice in either event to be given for the same length of time and in the 
same manner as for the commencement of actions in the district court. 
Such referees shall inspect the grounds proposed to be taken, fix the 
damage sustained as near as may be on the basis of the value of the real 
estate so appropriated, and report in writing to the county superinten- 
dent their doings and findings, which report shall be filed and preserved 
in his office; and upon the amount found by the referees being deposited 
with the county treasurer, for the use of such owner or owners, posses- 
sion may at once be taken of such real estate and the necessary build- 
ings erected and occupied. From the assessment so made either party 
may appeal to the district court by giving notice thereof as in case of 
taking private property for works of internal improvement within ten 
days after receiving notice of the award made. If such appeal is not 
taken, the assessment shall be final; if taken, the board may proceed 
with the construction of improvements, and may take possession of such 
real estate, if the deposit hereinbefore provided has been or shall be 
made. Such proceedings shall be void if the school corporation fails to 
deposit the amount due as hereinbefore provided within sixty days from 
and after the final determination of the proceedings upon appeal or 
otherwise. Upon such appeal the school corporation shall not be liable 



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for costs unless the owner shall be allowed a greater sum than given by 
the referees; all costs of making the referees' assessment to be paid by 
the school corporation. 

Sec. 3. This act being deemed of immediate importance, shall take 
effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Des Moines 
Register and the Des Moines Daily Capital, newspapers published in Des 
Moines, Iowa. 

INCREASING MEMBERSHIP OP EDUCATIONAL BOARD OF 
EXAMINERS. 

CH. 340—37 G. A. 
House File No. 513. 

Section 1. That section twenty-six hundred twenty-eight (2628) of 
the code be and the same is herreby amended by striking from line 
three (3) thereof the following; "principal of the normal school," and 
by inserting in lieu thereof the following: "president of the Iowa State 
Teachers' College, president of the Iowa State College of Agriculture 
and Mechanic Arts." 

ELECTION PRECINCTS— REGISTRATION. 

CH. 225 — 37 G. A. 

House File No. 405. 

Section 1. That section two thousand seven hundred fifty-five (2755) 
supplement to the code, 1913, be and the same is hereby repealed and 
the following enacted in lieu thereof: 

Each school corporation having five thousand or more inhabitants 
may be divided into such number of precincts as the board of directors 
shall determine, in each of which a poll shall be held at a convenient 
place, fixed by the board of directors, for the reception of the ballots 
of voters residing in such precinct. The clerk of the city shall furnish 
to the board of directors the last registers of elections, and these regis- 
ters shall be used at and have the same force and effect at school elec- 
tions held under this section in reception of votes thereat, as at general 
elections. The board of directors of such school corporation, on or be- 
fore the last Monday preceding such election shall appoint two suitable 
persons to be registrars in each of the election precincts of such school 
corporation for the registration of voters therein, who shall have the 
same qualification as registrars appointed for general elections and shall 
qualify in the same manner, and receive the same compensation to be 
paid by the school corporation. The registrars shall meet on the day of 
the election at the voting place in the precinct in which they have been 
appointed and shall hold continuous session from nine o'clock in the 
forenoon until seven o'clock in the afternoon. Any person claiming to 
be a voter, and who is not already registered in the proper precinct, may 
appear before them in the election precinct where he claims he is en- 
titled to vote and make and subscribe under oath a statement in the 



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registry book, which oath, and statement shall be of the same general 
character as that prescribed by section ten hundred seventy-seven of the 
code, and shall thereupon be granted a certificate of registration. 
Nothing in this section shall be construed to proihbit women from 
voting at all elections at which they are entitled to vote. The secretary 
must post a notice of the meeting in a public place in each precinct 
at least ten days before the meeting, and by publication once each week 
for two consecutive weeks preceding the same in some newspaper, pub- 
lished in the corporation, such notice to state the time, respective voting 
precincts, and the polling place in each precinct, and also to specify 
what questions authorized by law, in addition to the election of director 
or directors, shall be voted upon and determined by the voters of the 
several precincits. 

NORMAL TRAINING EXAMINATIONS IN PRIVATE OR DENOMI- 
NATIONAL SCHOOLS. 

CH. 346 — 37 G. A. 

House File No. 3361 

Section 1. That section twenty-six hundred thirty-four-b 6 (2634-b6), 
supplement to the code, 1913, be and the same is hereby amended by 
inserting after the word "school" in the fourth line, the words, "private, 
and denominational school"; also, in the eighth line after the word 
"school" insert the words "private, and denominational school." 

SCHOOL TAXES— AMOUNT BOARDS MAY LEVY. 

CH. 32—37 G. A. 

House File No. 194 

Section 1. That the law as it appears in section 2806, supplement to 
the code, 1913, be and the same is hereby amended by striking from line 
twelve of said section the words "two hundred seventy" and inserting 
in lieu thereof the words "four hundred fifty." 

FRATERNITIES PROHIBITED IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

CH. 158—37 G. A. 
House File No. 168. 

Section 1. That the law as it appears in section twenty-seven hun- 
dred eighty-two-a (2782-a), supplement to the code, 1913, be and the 
same is hereby amended by striking from line five (5) of said section 
the word "secret." 



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USE OF SCHOOL HOUSES AND GROUNDS FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES. 

CH. 229—37 G. A. 
House File No. 167. 

Section 1. The board of directors of any school corporation may 
authorize the use of any school house and its grounds within such cor- 
poration and not within the limits of a city or town for the purpose of 
meetings of granges, lodges, agricultural societies and similar rural se- 
cret orders and societies and for election purposes; such use to be for 
such compensation and upon such terms and conditions as may be fixed 
by said board for the proper protection of the school house and the prop- 
erty belonging therein, including that of pupils. Any compensation for 
such use shall be paid into the contingent fund and be expended in the 
upkeep and repair of such school property, and in purchasing supplies 
therefor. Provided, however, that if at any time the voters of such 
corporation at any annual meeting forbid such use of any such school 
house or grounds, the board shall not thereafter permit such use until 
the action of such voters shall have been rescinded by the voters at 
an annual meeting called for that purpose. 

PURCHASE OF ABANDONED PRIVATE SCHOOL GROUNDS. 
CH. 400—37 G. A. 
Senate File No. 424. 

That section twenty-eight hundred and fourteen (2814) of the sup- 
plement to the code, 1913, be and the same is hereby amended by 
adding thereto the following as section twenty-eight hundred and four- 
teen-b (2814-b). 

Any school corporation in which there was organized and founded 
prior to the year 1902 a university with not to exceed forty acres of 
land upon which a school building or buildings have been erected which 
could be used for public school purposes, and said university did prior 
to the year 1914 abandon said school and place its property upon the 
market and the same is now owned by a church organization, said school 
corporation may purchase said land and buildings where the same are 
located in a city of the first class, provided the owner of said land and 
buildings and the school corporation can agree as to the terms of sale 
and purchase price thereof. Said land and buildings, when so pur- 
chased, may be used for grade or high school purposes, school site or 
sites, play grounds, athletic field, demonstration grounds, agricultural 
experiment grounds and other educational or school purposes. 



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COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT— DEPUTY. 

CH. 317—37 G. A. 

Senate File No. 168. 

That section 2734-b, supplement to the code, 1913, be amended by 
adding the word "deputy" in the twentieth line of said section the 
words "with the approval of the board of supervisors entered of record." 

ELECTION PRECINCTS— REGISTRATION. 
CH. 334—37 G. A. 
House File No. 622. 

That section twenty-seven hundred fifty-five (2755), supplement to the 
code, 1913, be amended by adding after the last word in said section 
the following: 

"No register shall be prepared nor shall registration be required in 
any school corporation containing a city in which registration is not 
required at the general or city elections." 

MARGINAL RELEASE OF SCHOOL FUND MORTGAGES. 

CH. 339—37 G. A. 

House File No. 547. 

Section 1. That the release or satisfaction of any school fund 
mortgage entered on the margin of the record of such mortgage by the 
auditor of the county prior to July 4, 1894, be and the same is hereby 
legalized and given the same force and effect as though such auditor 
had had at the time of entering such release or satisfaction the same 
power thereafter conferred upon him by chapter fifty-three (53) of the 
acts of the twenty-fifth general assembly. 



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